Joshua Ho
Master Of Biomedical Innovation Programme Co-Director
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolJoshua Ho is a scientist-educator-innovator-entrepreneur with 11 years of experience translating bioinformatics and omics research into education, clinical innovation and startups from Hong Kong. He currently co-directs the Master of Biomedical Innovation programme and serves as Assistant Dean for Innovation & Technology Transfer at HKUMed, while leading AI-driven educational technology and the Bioinformatics Core for pan-omic sciences. Joshua combines academic rigor—as an associate professor with a PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Sydney and a Harvard postdoctoral background—with hands-on product leadership as co-founder and CEO of a digital health startup, Vitome. His technical interests include scalable single-cell analytics, metagenomics and systems medicine, and he has a track record of building teams that move computational methods into translational impact. Comfortable operating at the interface of academia, industry and policy, he uniquely pairs curriculum design with commercialization experience to accelerate biomedical innovation.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (19)
imputation9
kong9
set-analysis7
clustering6
dimensionality-reduction6
rna-seq5
extraction5
r-package5
visualization4
heart-rate4
dynamics4
monitors3
virtual-reality3
encode3
minecraft2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
holab-hku/holab-hku.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
The Laboratory of Dr Joshua Ho, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.
Contributions:166 commits, 243 pushes in 4 years 3 months
kong
VCCRI/CardiacProfileR
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 months
monitorsr-packageextractionheart-ratevisualisation
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